Zauder's makes gold, too!

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: Just an idea if anyone wants to try it...Zauders (the costume make-up : people) makes the "teeth-out" paint in GOLD as well as black. You : can get it at Party City. It's pretty tenacious stuff and stays put : on the skin. It also has a list of ingredients on the bottle. : Anita : : In the current Vogue Magazine, p. 374, showing some of Galliano's : : newest gear, two of the models have gold spots on their forehead. : : Very spiff makeup.....and either the cosmetics person has been : reading : : some of the same books I have looking for henna, or co-incidentally : : came up with a similar ideaa. : : In the 3nd c. CE, some of the mummy cases in Roman Egypt show women : : with hennaed hands and gold ornamentation on their faces. When : Marcus : : Antonius Aurelius (Elagabalus)entered Rome as emperor, 218 CE., he : had : : hennaed hands and gold ornamentation on his face. He was from : Syria, : : and the gold face and henna were part of his presenting himself as : the : : leader (high priest) of a Mithraic solar cult. In Syria, it made : : sense for the leader of the people to assume the personna of the : head : : deity, but in Rome, such was universally scorned. He didn't : last. : : He was murdered and out by 222 CE. However, the solar deity he : : promoted (and hennaed in honor of) , did stay in the Roman : pantheon, : : as Sol Invictus. : : (When a Christian pope in the 5th c CE (I think, the date is : somewhere : : around here) was trying to expand the popularity of Christianity, : he : : put the celebration of the Nativity of Christ right near the very : : popular winter solstice celebration of Sol Invictus. I wish I knew : if : : people hennaed for the Sol Invictus winter solstice celebration. : It : : seems very likely, but Mithraic artifacts and texts are near : : nonexistant. It would be a great excuse to henna for Christmas! : : Another link to those Galliano golden faces is from Palestine in : the : : last century. (Back to Lebanon and Syria again) Brides, at the : night : : of the henna, after being hennaed, got their faces done too.... : all : : their friends would come and put little patches of gold leaf on : their : : faces (gold leaf like you use in medieval manuscripts ... finely : : feather light bits of pounded real gold) until the bride's face : "shone : : like the sun". I can't say whether that is a remnant of the solar : : henna traditions, or whether it was simply similar to the numerous : : traditions of presenting a bride with gold coins. Could be either : or : : both. Must have looked wonderful, though!

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